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Monthly Archives: December 2010

SpaceX Falcon 9 Heads for Heaven With Dragon Capsule Mockup

An earlier test of the Falcon Rocket.
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 lifted off from Cape Canaveral this morning, bearing unmanned mockup of the Dragon Capsule intended to...
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Everest: Climbing Over Corpses to Reach the Summit

Everest Corpse
One of my favorite books of all time is Jon Krakauer’s white-knuckle ride about climbing to the summit of...
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Black Vinyl Rituals and the Madness of Crowds

Lou Reed's 1971 debut solo album.
You know, if you’d asked me yesterday, “What fascinating topics do you expect get all excited about tomorrow?” I...
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Rash of Egyptian Shark Attacks

Oceanic white-tip shark in the Red Sea. Creative Commons photo by Peter Koelbl, via Wikipedia.
Three snorkelers have been injured, and a German woman killed, in shark attacks off the Egyptian resort town of...
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Murder in Celebration: Axe Bludgeoned in a Time of Artificial Innocence

Help Us Street Sign
For Autumn, the lampposts lining the streets of downtown Celebration, Florida belch out leaf-shaped confetti onto the sidewalks to...
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Pro-Wikileaks Hackers Take Down Swiss Bank

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Late Monday evening Swiss time, a distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attack by hackers took down the website of PostFinance, the...
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Carbon Nanotubes Are the New Blacker Than Black

Blacker than Black
The third-best thing about NASA’s announcement that it’s created carbon nanotubes one-nanometer diameter to make a paint blacker than...
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Making Child Abuse Facebook Famous

Screenshot from Know Your Meme.
You see…I am what they call a “fantasy-prone personality.” While dodging “suggestions” from people who, on most days, wisely...
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Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale – The Santa Flick From Hell

Holiday movie fare being typically comprised of the intellectual equivalent of a DIY trepanning kit, most of us would...
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Teddy Roosevelt, Monster Hunter?

Blogger's conception of the stalker becoming the stalked -- with Plesiosauric assistance from Kevin Walsh.
Did you know Theodore Roosevelt came this close to hunting a South American plesiosaur? “This” close being not at...
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